ICMA at the College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago 2026

ICMA Sponsored Session
The Archival Art Historian
Thursday 19 February 2026, 11am - 12:30pm CT
Hilton Chicago - 3rd Floor - Marquette Room

Session chairs:
Lauren Rozenberg, University of East Anglia
Millie Horton-Insch, The British Museum

The Living Monastery as Archive: Byzantine art in the Monastery of St. Catherine, Egypt Paroma Chatterjee, University of Michigan

Did I Just Genuflect? Learning to Navigate Catholic Spaces in Early Career Research Aoife Stables

Yellow, Orange, and Pink Cards: Archival Backfiles and Research Frontiers at the Index of Medieval Art Jessica Savage, Princeton University

Poetry as Image Theory: Recovering art-historical methods from literary archives Avantika Kumar, Fine Arts Library, Harvard